I have an app where locationType was set to hash. When I would go into the url and manually change it, my willTransition would fire. Recently I switched it to auto and now when I change that url, it does not fire. Thoughts?
Presumably it doesn’t fire because you’re getting a whole-page load instead. That’s the expected behavior. When you type in a new URL, the browser is always going to go and fetch it.
hash is special because browsers know that everything after # is local to the given page, so they don’t need a full refresh if only the hash is changing. The traditional use for # is links that stay within the current document.
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